Quotes by Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Ideas

Patterns

Practicals

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Funny

Humorous

Inspirational

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it’s dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Answers

Helping

Use

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Enemy

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily – leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

Errors

Practice

Team

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

Ideas

People

Thinking

I can’t choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

Action

Care

I Can

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

Bugs

Tests

Writing

I’ve learned to always avoid saying “always”

I've Learned

If you’re a technical lead, you need to be coding.

Ifs

Needs

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Action

Answers

Bigs

Bugs

Care

Cases

Community

Danger

Design

Development

Enemy

Engineering

Errors

Feedback

Funny

Helping

Humorous

I Can

I've Learned

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Issues

Lazy

Lines

Littles

Made

Method

Needs

Order

Patterns

People

Practicals

Practice

Prepared

Process

Red Flags

Rubies

Software

Symphony

Team

Tests

Thinking

Tools

Trying

Use

Views

Want

Writing

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Quotes by Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it’s dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

I can’t choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

I’ve learned to always avoid saying “always”

If you’re a technical lead, you need to be coding.

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